Example sentences of "be [adv] [v-ing] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 2 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 3 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 4 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 5 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 6 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 7 | Several other counties are already regretting that he slipped through the net . |
| 8 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 9 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 10 | So what they 're now saying that you 've got |
| 11 | We 're simply saying that it 's not been demonstrated that regeneration of West Yorkshire 's been taken into account . |
| 12 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |
| 13 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 14 | Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped . |
| 15 | There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually . |
| 16 | Joe just put your hand up now just put your hand up I 'm just seeing that you remember your number . |
| 17 | Thing is I , I do n't know if I 'm just imagining that I have n't got any , this this does n't really work . |
| 18 | I 'm not saying , twenty-five years later , that big Dave 's metaphor was quite as incisive as Virginia Woolf 's , I 'm just saying that I know now why he was n't entirely wrong . |
| 19 | I 'm just praying that we win it . |
| 20 | Erm that 's another thing that would may have persuaded me not to talk you into er self employed except you were already experiencing that I guess were you in timeshare ? |
| 21 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 22 | It was as if he were truculently stating that he had gone as far towards her as he was prepared to go . |
| 23 | Th the motion 's basically saying that we want to continue er our demands for harmonization of conditions pe irrespective of what peop jobs people do er in terms of negotiating , negotiating agreements . |
| 24 | I think he 's finally admitting that it 's all had an effect on him . |
| 25 | They 're also supremely naive if they do n't think at some point in the future that MCA will hike out a similar compilation to the one Phonogram just have … that 's always assuming that they sort themselves out enough to have the required amount of hits . |
| 26 | And he 's still insisting that he wants to move . |
| 27 | At the moment he 's probably wishing that he 'd stuck to music . |
| 28 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 29 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 30 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |